Iuta Naea

Iuta Naea (1858-1923) was a Micronesian bureaucrat on Wake Island during the 19th century. He was a member of one of the prominent clans on the island, and he became an intermediary between the Japanese fishermen and the natives during the early 1880s, negotiating the Japanese settlement of Otorishima. After the United States incorporated the Wake Territory in 1889, Iuta Naea and other members of the local elite became Republican Party members.